Date format problem

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Hi,



I'm trying to convert a string to date by specifying the format. The value
is like this: "03rd of April 2006". Now this is converted fine by using the
following format: "dd\r\d \o\f MMMM yyyy". The problem is of course that the
string can be 01st of..., 04th of etc., meaning that I can't use the "\r\d"
format description for all possible values.



Any suggestions? Is there a wildcard i can use, like "dd\?\?"...



Thanks,

Zsolt
 
Hello,

If you know all the possible formats you can do something like this.

string[] expectedFormats = {"dd\r\d \o\f MMMM yyyy", "dd\s\t \o\f MMMM
yyyy", "dd\t\h \o\f MMMM yyyy"};
DateTime validDateTime = Response.Write(DateTime.ParseExact("03rd of
April 2006", expectedFormats,
System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CurrentUICulture,
System.Globalization.DateTimeStyles.AllowWhiteSpaces));



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Hi,



I'm trying to convert a string to date by specifying the format. The value
is like this: "03rd of April 2006". Now this is converted fine by using the
following format: "dd\r\d \o\f MMMM yyyy". The problem is of course that the
string can be 01st of..., 04th of etc., meaning that I can't use the "\r\d"
format description for all possible values.



Any suggestions? Is there a wildcard i can use, like "dd\?\?"...



Thanks,

Zsolt
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